Last weekend, my son asked if I wanted to drop him off with a classmate in Vaals. And when I looked at google.maps on my phone how I should drive, I suddenly saw a sign where I wondered what that was and so I clicked on it. And what did I see then? Burial Mounds Bronze Age, Vijlenerbos! I was amazed because I didn't know this at all. Maybe I knew it once, but at the time I really reacted with a “Hey.?". So when I dropped off son, I just drove on a little bit to see what those burial mounds were (see photo). 

As you can read in the picture, it would be 7 prehistoric burial mounds and actually I would have wanted to see them all. After all, I had the hiking boots on, but I've seen away from it for that moment because it's 1. was terribly cold and I wasn't dressed further on that cold and 2. it wasn't clear at that time how I could find those other burial mounds, I had found coordinates but my phone was pretty much empty and I didn't see a route or turn signal that could send me the right direction (if there is indeed none, that is a missed opportunity of Vaals because you could make a nice walking route out of this (because the area is beautiful).

There's not a lot of information to be found. Mostly pretty common but because I want to throw a walk at it soon I started looking for anyway. At vakantielandnederland.nl I found the following clue:

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